I graduated from a very fancy law school in 2009 and I had a year of unpaid work before I got a $31k/year job.

the millennial experience

My school’s class of 09 ended up scrambling but did find legal jobs ($30k county court clerkships but at least legal). Class of 2010… a bunch of people ended up in HR, going back to school, etc. Even the “bad” legal jobs didn’t exist. No idea what 2011 did—they didn’t even have summer opportunities.